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Comment by MortyWaves

1 day ago

Caddy, Nginx, Traefik seem to be the most popular reverse proxies in the self hosting/homelab communities.

I definitely prefer Caddy in my experience, so far.

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BrandoElFollito  1 hour ago

I used to use Caddy for years and was active in the community.

I switched to Traefik for a few reasons: labels configuration (there is a parallel version of caddy maintained by somebody else that does it), how middleware are implemented and the dynamic capacities of Traefik.

Caddy is excellent, a brilliant piece of tech. For edge routing Traefik is worth at least considering.

ethan_smith  19 hours ago

HAProxy deserves a mention alongside those - it's particularly strong for high-traffic production environments where its advanced load balancing algorithms and detailed metrics shine.

  • p_ing  15 hours ago

    I would argue this is the best mainstream proxy. Even better when paired with OpenBSD and CARP.

somehnguy  15 hours ago

Caddy has been excellent for me thus far as well. I'm using it on a VPS to reverse proxy to the services I run at home via a Tailscale tunnel. Coming from Nginx in the past Caddy was drop-dead simple to configure.

The entire config for each vhost is 3 lines, including the domain definition and closing brace - and that includes TLS!